Sunday, September 22, the first in a 3-performance run of a staged reading of the play My Name Is Renny Edward Milano Salgado will show at 1:30pm at Second Unitarian Church in Chicago. This is a play by mutual aid volunteer Fran Zell, based on her experiences volunteering with new arrivals. Read more about the play and the upcoming performances here.
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“Donald Trump has essentially endorsed ethnic cleansing in the United States.”